LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Romanian Cargo Ship Savinesti (1)
Blizzard ON THURSDAY MORNING February 15 a Romanian cargo ship, Savinesti, with 28 people on board was reported in distress 125° 37.5 miles from Spurn Point; she had engine failure and was dragging her anchor. After liaison (made more...
Grace Darling's Coble. A Permanent Home at Bamburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 90 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 104 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 27th November, 1930 62,443 Grace Darling's Coble.
A...
Category: Articles
Launching and Recovery—Part I: Slipway Stations By Edward Wake- Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
IN THE ACCOUNT of the service by Padstow lifeboat to the coaster Skopelos Sky which appeared in the summer edition of the journal, there was an unusual addendum. Unlike most reports that begin with words to the effect that 'the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
What South Australia Is Doing
ABILITY to aid the shipwrecked is a fairly accurate standard by which to measure a country's civilization. In the South Sea Islands, or Somali Laud, the un- fortunate castaway may struggle through the breakers, only to be clubbed on...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 21st day of March, 1876. His Grace The DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, being unable to...
Category: Annual Reports
George Brown and Wave
On the 15th of April, at 10 A.M., during a heavy gale at S., the schooner George Brown, of Montrose, bound from Newcastle to that port, was wrecked on the Annat Bank. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, pushed out of the river through a heavy...
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Institution's Storeyard is at Poplar, in a district of London where there is a great deal of poverty, and at Christmas last year it gave a Tea and Entertainment to over 150 children.
It was entirely arranged and...
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Development of the Barnett Twin-Screw Motor Life-Boat
Boats for Plymouth and Aberdeen.
IN October, 1924, the Institution laid down two more Motor Life-boats of the Barnett Twin-Screw type for Plymouth and Aberdeen. The first reached her Station on July 1st, and the 2nd on...
Category: Articles
The Women of Newbiggin
Award of the Thanks of the institution Inscribed on Vellum.
ON the morning of January 26th, the whole of the Newbiggin fishing fleet had gone out in fine weather, but while they were at sea a sudden gale sprang up. By...
Category: Awards
Princess Wilhelmina
Tempes- tuous weather was experienced on the north-east coast during the last days of September, and the Swedish barque Princess Wilhelmina of Halmstad, laden with firewood from Kemi to Dundee, became embayed off St. Andrews. Fail- ing to...